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Tuesday, Nov. 9, 1976 ITHACA JOURNAL 7 Testifies for Byrne state briefs GE gives funds Vtica mayor resigns, UTICA (AP) -Mayor Edward Hanna said today he would resign his post effective this January if the ritv in Washington. -wt Hanna submitted his resignation to the City Clerk today, but said it was tfl contingent on action by the city's Common Council establishing the 37,000 a vear nnst ax Utira's ronraGontatitfa i ui Greenberger testified that Byrne even looked in on him in the middle of the night and if the witness was asleep "would turn around the chair to show he was there." The witness said Byrne "used to call me 'neighbor' I don't think he knew my name before." Lynch claims the abduction was young Bronfman's plan so he could extort money from his father, Edgar Bronfman, chief executive of Seagram's distilleries, who paid the ransom. Lynch claimed he had a homosexual relationship with young Bronfman, but the latter has denied this. FBI agents and New York police rescued Bronfman unharmed from Lynch's Brooklyn ap'artment, after being tipped off by Byrne.

i tn uic imuuii 9 capiiut. The bill to create the lobbyist's post was expected to be submitted to the council next week and Hanna said he had the support of all but two of the council's seven members. Council President Edward Rekowski, who would succeed Hanna as mayor, said he would appoint Hanna to the Washington job if the council approves ALBANY (AP) The General Electric Co. has turned over its pledged $3 million to the state to help clean up PCB pollution from the Hudson River below two GE plants. 1 Commissioner Peter A.A.

Berle of the Department of Environmental conservation said Monday the money was transferred by telegraph from GE's bank to a department account at another bank. The money was part of a $7 million joint agreement on removing the toxic PCB's, or polychlorinated biphenyls, -from the river north of Albany, near GE's plants at Hudson Falls and Fort Edward. In addition to the 13 million, GE is required to spend $1 million on research, including $400,000 on a PCB substitute it will begin using next July. The PCBs are used to make Berle said the first phase of the research would be mapping of silt deposits which contain an estimated 450,000 pounds of the chemical. Until then, he said, it will not be known what the method or total cost of a clean-up will be.

Various alternatives, including dredging, have been discussed. Berle also declined to speculate when 'COMING TO ITHACA WHITE PLAINS (AP) An ailing 73-year-old neighbor of Dominic Byrne says he was treated better by the accused kidnaper of whisky heir Samuel Bronfman 2nd than by his own father and mother. Morris Greenberger, who has a heart ailment, testified Monday that Byrne started visiting him two or three times daily after a vein burst in his head and he was pratically confined to his apartment. Greenberger was summoned into State Supreme Court as a prosecution witness against Byrne, but the white-haired man, nervous and dabbing at his eyes with a handkerchief, virtually ended up being a character witness for the defendant. "He would dress me," Greenberger recounted, "He would feed me.

He took care of me better than my father and He's a good man. If it were not for him I would be dead four or five years ago." Greenberger was called by the state to show that Byrne, 54, a limousine operator, and his codefendant, Mel Patrick Lynch, 38, a fireman, has access to his apartment, where $2.3 million in Bronfman ransom money was recovered last year. Greenberger was in the hospital at the time, and authorities said he had no knowledge of the kidnaping. FBI agents said Lynch stashed the money in the witness's apartment, to get it off his own premises two blocks away. Byrne, a suspended New York City fireman, claims he was duped into the kidnaping.

And Greenberger's testimony on cross examination appeared to back up the defense picture of Byrne as a hardworking man who would harm no one. The witness said Byrne had done handyman jobs for him, once installing an air conditioner for only $10. The witness testified that Byrne had the "highest" reputation for honesty. Although he told Byrne where he hid his own savings from a lifetime as a waiter, Greenberger said it was not touched and "the money was there all the time." "I want to be in Washington, where the action is," the flamboyant mayor said, adding that a job in the Carter administration was also possible. He said he believed he has accomplished what he set out to do as mayor and that the job was no longer a challenge to him.

"I took the mayor's job as a challenge, to clean up corruption. I have returned government to it's rightful owners, the people," he said. "I am going to play another part now. I am not concerned about titles." He said he hoped that he could persuade the federal government to come to the aid of this central New York city of about 90,000, which he said was "in dire need of financial assistance." Hanna, the short, stocky 54-year-old son of Lebanese immigrant parents who worked in the cotton mills here, dropped out of school in the tenth grade and made his fortune in the photochemical business before entering politics. He had been a parks commissioner and state assemblyman in the 1950s, but ran for mayor in 1973 as a political maverick, without the backing of any party.

He won a close victory in a three-way race, but his popularity steadily improved until he polled almost as many votes as his two regular party opponents combined when he won re-election in 1975. During his tenure, Hanna lowered taxes, built a park next to City Hall with federal funds, and laid plans to renovate the downtown section into a European-type mall called "La Promenade." But it the process he carried out long-running feuds with the city's public employe unions, politicians, and often, the two local newspapers. PETER BERLE the fishing ban on most species in the river would be lifted. The state comptroller's office said the $3 million would be invested in short-term securities until it is needed for the project. The state will put up the other $3 million.

When it was announced, the PCB agreement was believed one of the first in the nation where a company agreed to pay for cleaning up pollution it caused. 82 STORES IN 7 STATES 8.5 MILLION SERVED Medicaid claims called fraudulent No voters in District 61 A MUST VISIT FOR YOU, YOUR FAMILY, AND YOUR FRIENDS COMING SOON TO PYRAMID MALL machine at $37.50 each ruled him ineligible because he hadn't voted for three years. Bea Dolen, director of the city's Board of Elections, said Monday District 61 probably will be consolidated with another district for the next election. NEW YORK (AP) About 6.4 million voters cast ballots last week in 13,843 of New York's 13,844 election districts. But no one voted in in District 61.

The district, a six-square-block section of waterfront in Brooklyn, had two registered voters, but only one showed up. The two clerks there to watch the voting FOR FRANCHISE INFORMATION CALL OR WRrrE 1 scnn camhwu doctort Ji 385! MAIN STREET ossooatw int -vt 5 flndsrsBn-Uftk Special Anderson-Little values, reduced even lower for seasonable savings IMlSftlDilll ne Ownf" ill 'tk: MJ Corduroy or wool CAR COATS I Vw ALLWEATHER COATS with zip-out linings NEW YORK (AP) State Health Department officials say millions of dollars worth of Medicaid claims by hospitals throughout the state for the care of patients released on weekend leaves appear to be fraudulent. The officials charged that much of the apparent deception involved New York City's municipal hospitals for treatment of poverty-level psychiatric patients. The officials say it is improper to bill Medicaid at a daily rate of more than $200 when the patients had been released from the hospitals for a weekend leave. "We're not sure it warrants criminal prosecution," John Eadie, director of utilization review and Medicaid operations for the Department of Health, said Monday, "but it certainly smacks of fraud." Dr.

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Pisa of contempt of court and sentenced him to 30 days in jail. In addition, the BTF was fined and Pisa fined $250 after being found guilty of ignoring two court injunctions against a public school strike last September. The first conviction in King's court in September was overturned by an appellate court. The panel ruled that legal papers were illegally served to Pisa and the union. Though the conviction was nullified and the sentences vacated, the appeals court said the charges could be refiled.

The city did so. Both sides agreed to allow the arguments of the original trial to stand and King ruled identically. Pisa remains free pending another appeal. The BTF struck public schools here Sept. 7-24.

The strike ended with a contract agreement that submitted four unresolved issues to binding arbitration. Cavett calls case 'tempest in teepee" NEW YORK AP) New York Atty. Gen. Louis J. Lefkowitz and television personality Dick Cavett have settled an argument over Indian artifacts that Cavett says was never more than a "tempest in a tepee" anyway.

The hassle started when Cavett was given two buffalo robes, a shield, and a Plains Indian war shirt by the Museum of the American Indian here in exchange for his gift of 53 other artifacts. Lefkowitz, claiming the goods were worth $12,000, said Cavett was receiving an illegal gift from the former director of the museum. He filed suit against Cavett to force their return. Lefkowitz announced Monday that he was dropping the suit after Cavett said he would return the items. Cavett said legal fees were costing him more than the items were worth which he estimated was $2,000.

Cavett said he had gotten caught in the middle of a dispute between the Attorney General's office and the museum's former management. Museum Director Frederick J. Dockstader has since been dismissed and a new board of trustees has been appointed. 1 Man charged in death of baby NEW YORK (AP) A 27-year-old Brooklyn man has been charged with murder for allegedly beating his girlfriend's 22-month-old daughter to death because the child was unresponsive to toilet training. The baby, Fhanta Joseph, died after the spinal cord in her neck area was crushed.

Police said James Crafton, charged with the child's murder, beat the little girl with his hands and then with a Fiberglas fishing pole while her mother, Donna Joseph, 20, was out shopping Sunday afternoon. Police found the baby dead in her crib. Beame calls attack disgraceful NEW YORK (AP) Mayor Abraham D. Beame says an attack on Soviet violinist Vladimir Spivakov on Sunday over the treatment of Soviet Jews was "shameful and disgraceful." During the recital, a man shouted in Russian, "Remember the Soviet Jews" and threw a paint bomb which a guard deflected. Another man later hit him with a paint bomb, but Spivakov finished the recital.

His publicity manager blamed members of the Jewish Defense League. "I do not condone the oppression of Jews in the Soviet Union. But yesterday's shameful Incident in Carnegie Hall did not advance the cause of Soviet Jewry," Beame said in a statement issued Monday. Warn state to watch Michigan lawsuit BUFFALO (AP) More than a decade ago, an oil company subsidiary and New York State signed a contract to establish a nuclear waste reprocessing plant in rural Cattaraugus County. Now, 700,000 gallons of radioactive liquids and 30 kilograms of plutonium are stored in buried steel tanks because the plant was closed to avoid paying for renovations to meet federal safety standards.

And the state finds itself apparently liable for disposing of the toxic waste and dissembling the plant. A call for the federal government to pay for cleanup was quickly followed by a warning to the New York attorney general that a Michigan lawsuit could result in even more wastes being brought to the site. Assemblyman William B. Hoyt (D-Buffalo) said Consumers Power Co. of Jackson, Mich.

has filed suit in federal court to force Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc. to comply with a contract and reprocess the utility's spent fuel. The Getty Oil Co. subsidiary, however, shut down the West Valley plant in 1972. The 1963 contract said the state would take over the plant if Nuclear Fuel pulled out.

In a letter to Atty. Gen. Louis J. Lefkowitz, Hoyt said the state should enter the Michigan suit as an interested party. "The state may ultimately be responsible for the care of all radioactive waste present on the site at the time the facility is transferred," he wrote.

Last week Hoyt said the federal government should take over the plant. He said 60 per cent of the spent fuel came from a federally operated power plant at Hanford, Wash. Only a trace came from within New York, he said. The tanks filled with wastes are expected to corrode within 40 years. Meanwyile, technologists have yet to come up with acceptable ways to dispose of the radioactive substances, an ecology group spokesman said.

Strike penalties challenged by NEA NEW YORK (AP) A U.S. District Court judge was to hear arguments today on whether the state has the constitutional right to penalize a public employe union for striking by cancelling the union's automatic dues checkoff prlveleges. Such a penalty can cause the loss to the union of relatively large sums. The New York State chapter of the National Education Association challenged the constitutionality of the strike penalties on behalf of the Buffalo Teachers Federation. A NEA spokeswoman said Monday the suit was an attempt to "head off" imposition of dues checkoff penalties against the 3,500 member Buffalo union, which struck the city school system Sept.

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